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The Woodard Way

Woodard has a 70 year history of providing St. Louis with Legendary Service.

The Woodard name and reputation was built on the quality and character of our employees. The Woodard Way honors our history and the amazing people that came before us, while embracing our future. Providing our employees opportunities to grow fuels our Legendary Service.

The Woodard Way is an important quality in not only our employees, but is the core by which our company operates. The Woodard Way is comprised of these key components:

Our Core Values

Do What’s Right – Keeping safety, honesty, and integrity top of mind ensures opportunities to create a win-win-win for our employees, company, and customers.

Serve Others – To provide the St. Louis area with Legendary Service, we consistently go above and beyond to serve not only you, our customers, but also our Woodard team and our community.

Learn Every Day – At Woodard, we never settle; we strive to continuously improve and have a passion for progress.

Our Purpose

We help people get back to their lives. From a small stain on your carpet to rebuilding your home after a fire, we get up each and every day to help you get back to your life.

Our Strength

We have the most capable employees in the industry. Our employees are fully trained and certified to help you get back to your life.

Envisioned Future

We see a day when we are known for growing leaders in our company, industry, and community.

“The Woodard Way contains the fundamentals of our company. Our core values and purpose stem from my grandfather and his history. During WWII, my grandfather was aboard a Boeing B-17 and as they flew over Nazi occupied Germany in northern France, the plane was hit with massive flak completely damaging the plane. The captain immediately ordered everyone to evacuate the plane; half of the men were immediately captured by the Nazis and the other half (including my grandfather) were rescued by the members of the French Resistance. Over the course of the next two months, he was smuggled through France walking through the Pyrenees Mountains to get to Spain. A variety of people helped my grandfather evade capture from the Germans. He was provided fake papers from Paris in order to make his way past German guards and onto Spain, ending up in a Spanish prison. A negotiation was made allowing him to return to the United States. He then began the Woodard Cleaning Company alongside my grandmother Nancy.

It all started with the French people helping my grandpa literally get back to his life; without them, he would have ended up in a Nazi concentration camp and unable to get back to his life. Woodard today is an extension of what the French people did for my grandfather. Today, our focus, our mission, our purpose for existence is to help people get back to their lives.” – Justin Woodard, President